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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the word inyan mean?
(a) The coyotes.
(b) The horses.
(c) The rocks.
(d) The houses.

2. In the beginning of Chapter 8, Lame Deer tells a big secret that he just wants to whisper and doesn't dare say aloud. What is this secret?
(a) That he once believed himself to be a great Sioux warrior.
(b) That the Sioux are extremely bashful.
(c) That he has seen a thunderbird up close.
(d) That the Sioux tribe doesn't exist anymore.

3. In the tale about the Stone Boy, what does the young girl swallow?
(a) A boy.
(b) A stone.
(c) An arrow.
(d) A horse.

4. In Chapter 8, Lame Deer talks about a young Navajo boy and girl in their apartment in their city. What color of blanket did he put over this young couple?
(a) White.
(b) Red.
(c) Blue.
(d) Yellow.

5. What does Lame Deer say is the name of a man who "uses the power of the rawhide and the stones to find and to cure"?
(a) Waanazin.
(b) Yuwipi.
(c) Wapiya.
(d) Waayatan.

6. What does Lame Deer say the white man forgot to give Indians when they brought them whiskey?
(a) A flask.
(b) Green frog skin.
(c) A woman to cry about.
(d) The instruction book.

7. Lame Deer states that many white men think that the sun dance is an initiation of what?
(a) Of a old medicine man passing on his power to a younger medicine man.
(b) Of a young man growing into manhood.
(c) Of a warrior ready to kill for the first time.
(d) Of a man and a woman growing together in love.

8. Lame Deer states that most the time a person became a medicine man through what?
(a) His own vision.
(b) The vision of the oldest medicine man in the tribe.
(c) His grandfather's vision.
(d) The joint vision of the medicine men of the tribe.

9. Lame Deer states that their tribe's oldest lady had a face like what?
(a) The Badlands.
(b) The rock covered mountains.
(c) The wrinkled sheet.
(d) Rippled water.

10. What was the name of Lame Deer's (the great-grandfather) second chief that was shot by soldiers?
(a) Iron Star.
(b) Screaming Eagle.
(c) Rod Iron.
(d) Morning Sun.

11. At the Custer battle, who had green paper in their pockets?
(a) The white generals.
(b) The white soldiers.
(c) The Indian warriors.
(d) The Indian chiefs.

12. What is the word that the Sioux Indians use for the soul, spirit, or essence?
(a) Heyoka.
(b) Nagi.
(c) Shehi.
(d) Hanblechia.

13. At the beginning of Chapter 13, Lame Deer mentions that one of his tribe's troubles is that they can't do what?
(a) Steal.
(b) Curse.
(c) Lie.
(d) Cheat.

14. What does the word heyoka mean?
(a) Horse.
(b) Clown.
(c) Bull.
(d) Rodeo.

15. If a boy wasn't satisfied with just rubbing noses with a girl, he would ask an elk medicine man to make him what?
(a) A bow and arrow.
(b) A horse bridle.
(c) A flute.
(d) An ax.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the reason that Indians drank according to Lame Deer?

2. When the holy man came back to earth in the story of the ghost dance, he began to teach the people a dance. How many songs did he have?

3. In the tale of the Stone Boy, when Stone Boy goes out to find his uncles he starts out in the morning and in the evening he smells what?

4. When the holy man in the story of the ghost dance saw the beautiful land he saw a land that was dotted with what?

5. What does the word inipi mean?

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